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Details of object number: 4701668
Title:Frauenfigur
Object name:print
Collection:Provincial Council of South Tyrol
Created by:Grasser, Karl (Kortsch, 1923-12-23 - Kortsch, 2022-06-21)
Production date:(dated) 1986
Description:Old woman with headscarf and rosary sitting on a bench under a wayside cross.
Labelled in pencil at the lower edge of the picture: left ‘3/15 Handabzug’, right ‘Karl Grasser 1986’.
Labelled in pencil at the lower edge of the picture: left ‘3/15 Handabzug’, right ‘Karl Grasser 1986’.
Hist. crit. notes:Karl Grasser (1923 - 2022) began frequenting the Val Gardena/Gröden Art School before graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Working mainly in bronze and marble, his sculptures mostly found their way into churches or public spaces. His activism for the protection of cultural landscapes led to a 22-year-long membership of the Silandro building commission.
Grasser's contribution to the “Rimpfmappe” portfolio was his woodcut of a group gathering in a village. Another woodcut in the Bolzano Provincial Council building depicts an old woman with a grief-stricken expression sitting on a bench, clutching a rosary. Behind her lies an etched flowerpot beneath Christ on the Cross bleeding from a large nail embedded in His flesh. Grasser's expressiveness and religiosity is manifested in his disproportionately large hands, focussing on the rosary. (Markus Neuwirth, Moving between North and South, in: Art in the Provincial Council of South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen 2024, p. 169, 202-203)
Grasser's contribution to the “Rimpfmappe” portfolio was his woodcut of a group gathering in a village. Another woodcut in the Bolzano Provincial Council building depicts an old woman with a grief-stricken expression sitting on a bench, clutching a rosary. Behind her lies an etched flowerpot beneath Christ on the Cross bleeding from a large nail embedded in His flesh. Grasser's expressiveness and religiosity is manifested in his disproportionately large hands, focussing on the rosary. (Markus Neuwirth, Moving between North and South, in: Art in the Provincial Council of South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen 2024, p. 169, 202-203)
Material:paper
Technique:gedruckt (Holzschnitt)
Dimensions:
- height: 63 cm
width: 44 cm
Physical description:Einfarbiger Holzschnitt auf Papier
Keyword:Figurative